Matt Watson

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The post discusses the concept of technical debt and the author's personal experience with how technologies and languages have become deprecated or considered technical debt over their 20-year career.

My 20 Year Career is Technical Debt or Deprecated

Old languages: Perl, Delphi, Fortran, FoxPro, ColdFusion

What happened to ActiveX, Java Applets, Flash, and Silverlight?

<p>This feels like it ties directly into two articles I read last night:</p>
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<li><a href="https://glazkov.com/2022/02/23/the-cost-of-opinion/" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Cost of Opinion</a> and how it affects your technology stack over time</li>
<li><a href="https://glazkov.com/2023/04/17/porcelains/" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Porcelains</a> are ways to overcome the conflicts between “opinions”</li>
</ul>
<p>To my mind, this technical debt comes out of the opinion shifts and then this “porcelain” technique is an avenue out of the technical debt - or at least a stop gap measure until the debt is just too much and you really do have to shift platforms/libraries/whatever</p>
